[Error, error. Reassessing Batman's threat level...] [Assessment complete. Your current threat level is: C] [This does not match the facts. Restarting assessment procedure...] [Your threat level is: C, not B] [Your current level does not match history] [History has changed...] [Batman No. 52, you have reached the protection requirements corresponding to your threat level] [The Batman of the same level as you can now be loaded at any time] [Please find a living First Lantern... correcting] [Please find a dead First Lantern to complete the loading of "Batman Number 51"!]
Chen Tao froze.
What the hell was Batman Number 51?
He had originally thought that what he was going to load might be some bizarre variant like a "First Lantern Batman," even though, as far as the comics he had read in his previous life were concerned, such a fusion monster had never actually appeared.
Moreover, the Alfred Protocol's reaction this time was extremely strange.
When his threat level had been C, he had already loaded Shattered Bat through the Metal Spirit. In the truest sense, he had become the master of the Metal Spirit, allowing him to form further connections with other natural energies. That was why he could mobilize any powerful natural energy at any place, anytime, after leaving his own universe.
If he were to continue loading, then according to common sense, he should load the Batman corresponding to threat level B, such as Speeding Bullet—the Superman version of Batman—or something similar. At worst, it should have been Bizarro Batman...
Chen Tao had once wondered whether loading Bizarro Batman at threat level B would lower his intelligence and turn him into an idiot... Fine, he was joking. Even if that would not happen, he would not do it for the sake of safety.
But now,